President James Garfield
"Real political issues cannot be manufactured by the leaders of political parties. The real political issues of the day declare themselves, and come out of the depths of that deep which we call public opinion"- James Garfield
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General Winfield Scott Hancock was the Democrat who ran against Garfield (born near the Montgomeryvile Mall)
President Chester Arthur Roscoe Conkling
"The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it" - Chester Arthur
"Men may die, but the fabrics of free-institutions remain unshaken"-Chester Arthur
Definition of "Civil Service"-the administrative service of a government or international agency exclusive of the armed forces; especially: one in which appointments are determined by competitive examination
What we will cover:
Gilded Age Terms:
- Monopoly- Free Market Economy
- Philanthropy
- Graft
- Machine Politics
- Social Darwinism
Gilded Age Cartoons
Virtual tour of a tenement house in New York City
Play the immigrant game here
Standard Oil spin off companies
Mansions and tenements
Biography of Rockefeller
President James Garfield
"Real political issues cannot be manufactured by the leaders of political parties. The real political issues of the day declare themselves, and come out of the depths of that deep which we call public opinion"- James Garfield
General Winfield Scott Hancock was the Democrat who ran against Garfield (born near the Montgomeryvile Mall)
President Chester Arthur
"The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it" - Chester Arthur
"Men may die, but the fabrics of free-institutions remain unshaken"-Chester Arthur
Definition of "Civil Service"-the administrative service of a government or international agency exclusive of the armed forces; especially : one in which appointments are determined by competitive examination
Go here to see the actual wording of the Pendleton Act of 1883
President Grover Cleveland
"The lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the government, government should not support the people"- Grover Cleveland
"It is better to be defeated standing for high principle than to run by committing subterfuge"- Grover Cleveland
President Benjamin Harrison
"I want it understood that I am the grandson of nobody. I believe that every man should stand on his own merits"- Benjamin Harrison
President William McKinley-"The free man cannot be long an ignorant man"